self-healing armor

There was a topic several months ago discussing whether armor that repairs itself is believable. For those that are interested:
(url="http://"http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010214/sc/self_healing_material_1.html")http://dailynews.yah...material_1.html(/url) (url="http://"http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1170000/1170304.stm")http://news.bbc.co.u...000/1170304.stm(/url)

-STH

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